Campaign for Nebraska E-newsletter - December 2013

The Campaign for Nebraska: Unlimited Possibilities

The best of 2013

We’re thankful that so many great people shared their stories with us in 2013. We’re thankful for you, too, for reading them and sharing them with your friends on social media and sending us notes and comments.

We feel lucky when you add your own comments to these stories, as “proudhusker” did in his comments after reading last month’s story on World War II veteran Don Swanson:

What a great story... a good man doing good things. There IS no place like Nebraska.

Or this e-mail we received in October from a woman named Lucille:

This is a fabulous mailing, interesting and informative. I’m a 1946 graduate, widow, living on pretty much fixed income, but will be sending a gift when I can.

So as we wind down this year and get ready for another, we partake in an end-of-year tradition – compiling a “best of” list. Here then are some of the most clicked, most shared and most viewed stories of 2013:

Buffett gives students priceless advice.A young woman stood before the third-richest man in the world – Warren Buffett – one day this past May and asked him about something almost everybody in the world wants:

“I wouldn’t ever think of parting with it,” the 91-year-old says. He smiles.

It’s a piece of shrapnel.

Married best friends feel it’s good to give. They fell in love at UNL. On graduation day, they kissed in caps and gowns in front of Love Library. His gown still had the wrinkles from the box.
Her gown was neatly pressed. (She was a home-ec major.)

That was Janet Stoeger Wilke’s first thought. She is the dean of the library at UNK. She phoned Dee Urwiller, who coordinates the emergency plans for the library, and both rushed there to help save its books.

Yet these normal men shot thousands of Jews point blank, including children, even though their Army leader had told them they didn’t have to.
Step away if you can’t stomach it.

Most didn’t. Why?

“Why is this so important?” asks the professor standing at the front of the classroom, who looks the same age as his students despite a bowtie and beard.

And here is a list of another kind.

Today is Giving Tuesday, a day when charities across the nation try to raise money online.

Giving Tuesday started last holiday season as a grassroots effort to encourage people to give to others during the traditional holiday shopping season. It's the first Tuesday after Turkey Day. (The ying to Black Friday's yang.)

Last year, about 2,600 charities benefited. The effort is expected to grow, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The goal is to make it as big someday as Black Friday. We love the idea. So we came up with a wish list of funds here at the University of Nebraska Foundation that you may want to consider today (and every day).

If you do give today – to these funds or any other fund at nufoundation.org – we encourage you to go to our Facebook page and tell us why. And please pass on the news to your friends about this great day.

Help Archie stand tall at Morrill Hall.A gift to the Morrill Hall Fund would help the popular museum at UNL with what its main needs are right now.

Make a school kid smile. The Dental Day Fund supports the UNMC College of Dentistry’s annual day of dental care for underserved children.

Share your blessings with these people.The UNMC Sharing Clinic provides high-quality, low-cost health care and human services to people in need who live in the greater Omaha area.

Because we’ll all need a nurse.The Lincoln Division of the UNMC College of Nursing turns away many qualified applicants each year because of inadequate facilities. Consider helping the University of Nebraska raise $5.5 million in private funds in order to secure the $12 million in public funds appropriated by the Legislature to build a new building for nursing students in Lincoln.

Danke! Gracias! ... Misaotra betsaka! (If you’re in Madagascar.) Global Engagement is one of the top priorities of University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken and one of the top goals of the Campaign for Nebraska. One reason is because it enriches Nebraska in so many ways.

Be the book thief...And consider buying a book for the kids who come to UNL’s Schmoker Reading Center on East Campus, where students learn teaching skills while helping kids learn to read.

Bridge the distance between here and Israel. UNO’s Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish studies hopes to expand knowledge about Judaism and Israel, both on the university campus and in the broader Nebraska community, and promotes collaboration in teaching and research with academic institutions in Israel.

One room. One Teacher. One wall of honor. Join others in UNK’s popular One Room. One Teacher program that honors one-room teachers, and consider adding a teacher’s name to the wall of honor.

Help mend a broken heart.Regenerative medicine is a broad definition for innovative therapies that will enable the body to repair, replace, restore and regenerate damaged or diseased cells, tissues and organs. UNMC’s Regenerative Medicine scientists are on the forefront of this research – including research on how to repair a damaged heart after a heart attack.

Build a home for the future Warren Buffetts.A gift to the UNL CBA Building Fund would help support the new College of Business Administration building that UNL plans to build on City Campus.

Thanks again and Happy Holidays!

Campaign for Nebraska. Unlimited Possibilities

The University of Nebraska Foundation is involved in a comprehensive fundraising campaign to fund university priorities such as student scholarships, faculty recruitment, research and program support. To learn more about the Campaign for Nebraska, or to contribute, go to campaignfornebraska.org.

The University of Nebraska Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization raising private gifts to support the University of Nebraska. In 2013, donors provided $236.7 million for scholarships, research, academic programs, faculty and facilities. The foundation's comprehensive fundraising campaign, the Campaign for Nebraska, concludes Dec. 31, 2014.

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Over the years of helping donors achieve their philanthropic goals we have developed a number of We Believe Statements to guide us. One of those beliefs is that higher education has the power to transform lives and communities.

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